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Isaiah 23:10-14

The third strophe, as usually explained, deals mainly with the emancipation of the Phœnician colonies from the somewhat stringent control of Tyre. But the passage presents many difficulties; and from the utter uncertainty as to the meaning of Isaiah 23:13 the general sense is doubtful.

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See also Isaiah 23:10-14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 23:10. _O DAUGHTER OF TARSHISH_] Tyre is called the daughter of Tarshish; perhaps because, Tyre being ruined, Tarshish was become the superior city, and might be considered as the metrop...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    PASS THROUGH THY LAND AS A RIVER - This verse has been very variously understood. Vitringa supposes that it means that all that held the city together - its fortifications, walls, etc., would be laid...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 23 The Burden of Tyre 1. _Tyre's great disaster (Isaiah 23:1)_ 2. _The complete overthrow (Isaiah 23:6)_ 3. _Tyre's future restoration and degradation (Isaiah 23:15)_ Tyre typifies the commer...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 23. ORACLE ON TYRE. The date and authorship are alike very uncertain. If by Isaiah, the occasion may be the siege of Tyre by Shalmaneser about 727- 722 (p. 59), the historicity of which, howeve...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHO HATH TAKEN THIS COUNSEL, &C.— The prophet here informs us of the great executor of this judgment, namely, God himself. To do this the more elegantly, he introduces a chorus of men, astonished at t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. SHAKEN TEXT: Isaiah 23:8-14 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts hat...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. A RIVER - Hebrew, Cayeor, 'as the river Nile.' O DAUGHTER OF TARSHISH - Tyre and its inhabitants, about hencef...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DOOM OF TYRE Tyre was a great mercantile centre of the ancient world, and at the time of the Hebrew monarchy chief state of Phœnicia, the parent of many colonies, and mistress of the Mediterranea...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A RIVER] RV 'the Nile.' _There.._ STRENGTH] 'There is no girdle about thee any more.' The Tyrian colonies, released from all restraint, throw off allegiance....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Farmers soon learn to depend on God. He provides in nature (in weather and in soil) the means to produce crops. THE *LORD’S POWER OVER NATURE AND OVER NATIONS V11 The *Lord has shown his power over...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 23 All the verses in this chapter refer to both Tyre and Sidon. This is so even if on...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עִבְרִ֥י אַרְצֵ֖ךְ כַּ † יְאֹ֑ר בַּת ־תַּרְשִׁ֕ישׁ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVIII TYRE; OR, THE MERCENARY SPIRIT 702 B.C. Isaiah 23:1 THE task, which was laid upon the religion of Israel while Isaiah was its prophet, was the task, as we have often told ourselves, o...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The burden of Tyre opens with a graphic description of her desolation. Her harbors are closed. Her borders are desolate. The sea, which had been her highway, is abandoned, and Egypt, her ally, is affr...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Pass through thy land as a river, O (n) daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength. (n) Your strength will no more serve you: therefore flee to other countries for comfort....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Girdle, fortress; or rather, thou art naked, like a slave, chap. xx. 4._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we are brought acquainted with the means the Lord will make use of, for the overthrow of Tyre. The Chaldeans shall be the Lord's instruments; and what adds to the aggravation of Tyre's sorrow, to...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._For there is not any longer a girdle. _(110) מזח (_mēzăch_) is translated by some _a girdle_, and by others _strength_. Those who translate it _girdle_, suppose the meaning to be that Tyre will be...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    PASS THROUGH THY LAND AS A RIVER, O DAUGHTER OF TARSHISH,.... Or, "of the sea", as the Vulgate Latin; meaning Tyre, which was situated in the sea, and did, as it were, spring from it, and was fortifie...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: [there is] no more strength. Ver. 10. _Pass through the land as a river,_] _i.e., _ Hastily: _a_ _Abi praeceps,_ pack up and begone with all...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Pass through thy land_ Tarry no longer in thy own territories, but flee through them, into other countries, for safety and relief. _As a river_ Swiftly, lest you be prevented; continually, till you b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Pass through thy land as a river, overflowing it like the Nile, without interference and hindrance from fallen Tyre, O DAUGHTER OF TARSHISH, the Spanish colony of Tyre; THERE IS NO MORE STRENGTH, lite...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FALL OF TYREV. 1. THE BURDEN OF TYRE, the proud Phoenician metropolis, which withstood the attacks of several Assyrian armies and endured a siege of thirteen years by Nebuchadnezzar, but was destr...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    STRENGTH: _ Heb._ girdle...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 Tyre was the mart of the nations. She was noted for mirth and diversions; and this made her loth to consider the warnings God gave by his servants. Her merchants were princes, and lived like pri...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PASS THROUGH THE LAND; tarry no longer in thy own territories, but flee through them, and beyond them, into other countries, for safety and relief. AS A RIVER; swiftly, lest you be prevented; and cont...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 23:10 Overflow H5674 (H8798) land H776 River H2975 daughter H1323 Tarshish H8659 strength H4206 O daughter -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    LAMENT OVER TYRE (ISAIAH 23:1). The final burden is the burden of Tyre and Sidon. These were two wealthy and powerful seaports on the Mediterranean coast from which ships went out to all parts of the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burden of Tyre. Desolations preceding the final deliverance of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The proud boasts of worldly nations, who bid defiance to their neighbors, will surely be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 23:1. _The burden of Tyre._ This was one of the most ancient cities of Phœnicia, situate on a rock, seven hundred paces from the shore, though now joined to the land by the working of the sea....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The burden of Tyre_ THE PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE: LESSONS The Tarshish of this chapter is Spain. Chittim is the island of Cyprus. The word “merchant” is the same word that is rendered in other places...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 23:1 The fifth oracle concerns the judgment and redemption of Tyre. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 23:1 THE BURDEN OF TYRE. We hero reach the last of the "burdens"—the concluding chapter of the series of denunciatory prophecies which commenced with Isaiah 13:1. It is an elegy "in...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre. Tyre was, of course, a seaport town. It was the area... The people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians. And so you who are versed in your ancient h...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 28:20; Haggai 2:22; Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 23:14; Job 12:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Pass through — Tarry no longer in thy own territories, but flee through them, into other countries, for safety and relief. As a river — Swiftly, lest you be prevented. Tarshish — O Tyre, which might w...

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